Jonathan Holstein was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1979.

In 2003, Jonathan Holstein donated his historic collection of quilts and archival materials to the International Quilt Museum, in a joint venture with its founders, Ardis and Robert James. Included in this extensive collections of more than four hundred quilts are the sixty-two quilts from the original Whitney Museum show and more than one hundred Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Midwestern Amish quilts.